Perfume reviews and comparisons
For the first time I’ll have to break the one-perfume-one-review rule, but it would have been impossible to describe Gucci Guilty Pour Homme (2011) and the PH Black version (2013) with a decent number of words, if I had done it separately. They both put together a little bit of this and a little bit of that, creating a dark and hazy cloud of aromatic, spicy and clean notes, which never gets to get a shape. Perhaps, if you’re [...] Read more »
Let’s say you’re looking for a low-tone fragrance to wear during your daily activities. You don’t dislike florals, but you don’t like them too powerful. At the same time, you want something simple but not completely linear, and maybe with some hidden complexity. Well, look no more because that’s what the EdT version of Chanel Chance is about. It’s one of the three flankers of the original Eau de Parfum, with Tendre, and Fraiche) and it’s least mentioned (heck, [...] Read more »
Gorgeous Gardenia Eau De Toilette opens fresh and almost balsamic, with a ripe and pulpy pear, and a certain idea of florals already in the background. In the heart notes there’s a slow transition to a more marked floral, but… where’s the gardenia? I was expecting some buttery stuff (like in Velvet Gardenia by Tom Ford and Truth Or Dare by Madonna for example), but there’s none of that in Gorgeous Gardenia By Gucci. This is the third fragrance [...] Read more »
Gracious Tuberose is the second of the five fragrances of the Gucci Flora Garden Collection (after Glamorous Magnolia) you can find here. It starts by doing justice to its adjective: it’s gracious, pure and awesome, with fruity tones mixed with soapy floral notes. Tuberose is notoriously an intense floral (Carnal Flower, anyone?) but in this case it feels sparkling, vivid and natural. There’s no aggressiveness, just soapy peacefulness. After about one hour, in the middle notes, the floral in [...] Read more »
This is a recent flanker of Gucci Flora perfume, and part of a series of five with mandarin, tuberose, gardenia and violet. It starts with fireworks of lemon and green notes, and that’s when it had me, because if a citrus can not only survive my skin, but also feel so fragrant and natural like in Glamorous Magnolia by Gucci, that must mean something. And after that, sit down and enjoy the really slow change towards a delicate, non-dense [...] Read more »
In the notes I took for this review, there’s a word that I repeated four times: subdued. Gucci Gucci By Gucci Sport starts really good with a floral, citrus and slightly aquatic. Things get better when it gets even slightly balsamic, and then it starts its descent into spicy cleanness, with no particular strength nor excitement. It’s not suitable for winter, the spicy side is too understated to make it stand out enough in the cold season. You’ll [...] Read more »
Gucci Premiere is the new “essence” by Gucci, if you want to believe the ad. Calling it EdP or perfume would have been to crass I suppose. It starts with citrus notes, but different sides soon join in, in the form of dense white florals and a creamy fruitiness. The subtle creaminess is the cipher of this Gucci fragrance for women. It keeps all the notes together, makes the fragrance classy and mature, and that’s probably where the golden [...] Read more »
Gucci Guilty fragrance starts fruity and sweet, and then it goes sweet-floral full speed after a couple of minutes. When the florals finally find some balance, the fruits come out again (peach, if you ask me) and turn out to be a fair amount. Sweet notes however still own the room, and make this a sweet-floral with a fruity side. On the blotter it goes easier, it’s more sparkling and fresher. On the skin it’s more animalic (according to [...] Read more »